A truly special evening at Jazz Café London will host a group of highlife music aficionados that is very likely to bring up the Ghanaian spirit of the ‘King of Highlife’. Highlife music airs meandering horn sounds melting with a travelling guitar’s voice, accompanied by up-tempo, enhanced clave rhythms. The...
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I remember the first time I heard Chassol like it was yesterday. I was listening to “Pipornithology, Pt. II” – from his acclaimed album Big Sun – and I was blown away, by the way, he started with the recording of a singing bird and used it to create an...
GoGo Penguin‘s Man Made Object – released on the exalted Blue Note in 2016 – showed merely a peek towards the progressive direction of the trio. The band’s new album, A Humdrum Star serves as a hat tip towards Carl Sagan’s TV series Cosmos, highlighting a phrase which demonstrates just...
For the third year in a row, In the Round will give you the opportunity to experience a different kind of involvement with music and musicians. From the 31st of January to the 10th of February – throughout eight shows – the opening music series on the Roundhouse’s calendar will...
In 2017 the British jazz scene started taking centre stage and 2018 is likely to see the genre become the rising star of contemporary music with a long-awaited hip-pumping invasion. Brownswood Recordings have brought together their hotly tipped acts from a three-day recording session which produced We Out Here. The...
Relentlessly spinning; never still. Gilles Peterson always has one eye on the future: a taste-making muso of the highest form with an ear for the best new beats and sounds. Every year he hosts the annual Worldwide Awards which celebrates the best in underground music. He’ll be back at Koko in...
Every now and then, it happens that we chance upon shows that we can’t do otherwise but bless with support. The most recent case is a brand new music series debuting on Thursday the 18th of January at Poplar Union. Jazz Herstory aims to give you a new perspective on the...
Wormfood is an events company that sets out to align London domiciled African music with the dance floor energy of club nights. Set up in 2007, they have injected energy into many UK festivals and London’s wide array of world music venues. This ten-year celebration at South London’s Electric Brixton...
Embraced by the Alps Mountains in the North-western area of Italy, Turin is a city marked by its aristocratic past and industrial history. This contrast best represents the city’s multiple facets: richness and poverty, innovation and tradition, history and modernity all living together in one place. This blend and mix...
Preview of the album: Track List: 1. Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 feat. Carlos Santana – Black Times (Strut Records) 00:00 – 04:51 2. Antibalas – Hook & Crook (Daptone Records) 04:52 – 13:39 3. Boogát feat. Niña Dioz – Tanto Tattoo (Maisonette Music) 13:40 – 16:10 4. Ninos du...